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Kassala

Kassala

Kassala is a city in Kassala State in . It is a market town that is famous for its fruit gardens. Kassala is an important trading centre because it lies on the main highway between Khartoum and Port Sudan.
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  • Type: City with 401,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the state of Kassala in Sudan
  • Also known as: “Casala”, “Casallah”, “Cassala”, “Kasala”, “Kasallah”, “كسلا”, “كسلا (مدينة)”, and “كسلا القاش”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Al-Merghani Stadium.

Stadium
Stade Al-Merghani Kassala is a multi-use in Kassala, in northeastern . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 11,000.

Kassala

Latitude
15.4322° or 15° 25′ 56″ north
Longitude
36.4167° or 36° 25′ 0″ east
Population
401,000
Elevation
507 metres (1,663 feet)
IATA airport code
KSL
United Nations Location Code
SD KSL
Open location code
7G7RCCJ8+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13370913026
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
372753
Wiki­data ID
Q686813
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kassala” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كسل”
  • Arabic: “كسلا (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “كسلا (مدينه)”
  • Arabic: “كسلا القاش”
  • Arabic: “كسلا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كسلا”
  • Armenian: “Կասալա (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Կասալա”
  • Asturian: “Kassala”
  • Basque: “Kassala”
  • Bengali: “কা্সালা”
  • Catalan: “Kassala”
  • Cebuano: “Kassala (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Kassala”
  • Chinese: “卡薩拉”
  • Croatian: “Kasala”
  • Czech: “Kassala”
  • Danish: “Kassala”
  • Dutch: “Kassala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كسلا”
  • Esperanto: “Kassala”
  • Estonian: “Kassalā”
  • Finnish: “Kassala”
  • French: “Kassala”
  • German: “Kassala”
  • German: “Kassalā”
  • Greek: “Κάσσαλα”
  • Gujarati: “કાસલા”
  • Hebrew: “כסאללה”
  • Hebrew: “כסלא”
  • Hebrew: “כסלה”
  • Hebrew: “קסאלה”
  • Hebrew: “קסאללה”
  • Hebrew: “קסלא”
  • Hebrew: “קסלה”
  • Hebrew: “كسلا (مدينة)”
  • Hebrew: “كسلا القاش”
  • Hebrew: “كسلا”
  • Hindi: “कसाला”
  • Hungarian: “Kaszala”
  • Indonesian: “Kassala”
  • Irish: “Kassala”
  • Italian: “Cassala”
  • Japanese: “カッサラ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಸ್ಸಲಾ”
  • Korean: “카살라”
  • Latvian: “Kasala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kasala”
  • Malay: “Kassala”
  • Marathi: “कासला”
  • Mingrelian: “კასალა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kassala”
  • Norwegian: “Kassala”
  • Persian: “کسلا”
  • Polish: “Kassala”
  • Portuguese: “Cassala”
  • Portuguese: “Kassala”
  • Romanian: “Kassala”
  • Romanian: “Statul Kassala”
  • Russian: “Кассала”
  • Russian: “Кассале”
  • Serbian: “Касала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kasala”
  • Sinhala: “කස්සලා”
  • Slovenian: “Kasala”
  • Slovenian: “Kassala”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کسلا”
  • Spanish: “Kasala”
  • Swahili: “Kasala”
  • Swedish: “Kassala”
  • Tahitian: “ከሰላ”
  • Tamil: “கஸ்ஸலா”
  • Telugu: “కస్సాలా”
  • Thai: “กัสซะลา”
  • Tigre: “ከሳላ”
  • Turkish: “Kassala”
  • Turkish: “Kesela”
  • Ukrainian: “Кассала”
  • Urdu: “کسلا”
  • Venetian: “Cassala”
  • Vietnamese: “Kassala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kassala”
  • Zulu: “Kassala”
  • “Kassala”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kassala”. Photo: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0.